Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the 68th Independence Day in New Delhi.

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Aug 15, 2014

School children during the 68th Independence Day function at the historic Red Fort in New Delhi.

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Aug 15, 2014

In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, a Ukrainian soldier sits atop of a self-propelled gun as an army column of military vehicles prepares to roll to a frontline near Illovaisk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine.

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Aug 15, 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from Red Fort on the 68th Independence Day in New Delhi.

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Aug 13, 2014

Indian-origin mathematician Manjul Bhargava won the Fields Medal -- known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics." Bhargava, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, was among the four winners who have been awarded the Fields Medal, given out every four years.

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Aug 13, 2014

This squirrel is clearly a true blue Delhite because he isn't scared of taking a little bit of pungaa with the cops. Size doesn't really matter, does it?

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Aug 13, 2014

“Once you have expectations, you’ll eventually fail to see what you want to see. I’m just here to observe.” So spake V.S. Naipaul, 82, maintaining that he did not have any expectations about China even it was his first visit. He recently showed up at several literary events in Shanghai, such as the opening ceremony of the 2014 Shanghai International Literary Week and the release conference of “A Bend In The River” (Mandarin version)

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Aug 13, 2014

Lauren Bacall , 89, she of the smoky voice and killer lines. ’Mrs Bogart’, in a 60-year career, did a range of films, with Howard Hawks to Von Trier. Memoir By Myself won NBA prize, won two Tonys on stage.

Aug 13, 2014

An Ebola virus outbreak in western Africa has WHO declaring a global health
emergency. Some 1,100 dead, visitors from four countries to be scanned. India too on alert.

TDP MPs removing a nameplate of AITMC from Room No. 5 in Parliament in New Delhi. MPs of Trinamool Congress and Telugu Desam Party were engaged in a scuffle in Parliament over office space.

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Aug 12, 2014

This April 6, 2008 file photo shows actor-comedian Robin Williams speaking on stage at the "Idol Gives Back" fundraising special of "American Idol" in Los Angeles. Williams, whose free-form comedy and adept impressions dazzled audiences for decades, has died in an apparent suicide. He was 63. The Marin County Sheriff’s Office said Williams was pronounced dead at his home in California on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The sheriff’s office said a preliminary investigation showed the cause of death to be a suicide due to asphyxia.

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Aug 11, 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Asha Bhosle at a meeting in New Delhi.

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Aug 11, 2014

Chief of Army Staff, General Dalbir Singh paying tribute at the Siachen War Memorial,in Leh, Ladakh.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards prevent the media from approaching the wreckage of a passenger plane crash near the capital Tehran, Iran. An Iranian passenger plane crashed Sunday while taking off from an airport near the capital, Tehran, killing tens of people onboard, state media reported.

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Aug 10, 2014

A girl ties rakhi on the wrist of a BSF soldier on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan in Bikaner.

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Aug 10, 2014

A man runs out of the destroyed building after shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Fighting raged in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk despite a request from the pro-Russian rebels there for a cease-fire to prevent a "humanitarian catastrophe."

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Aug 10, 2014

Devotees on the bank of River Saryu taking a dip on the last day of the Hindu month of Sawan in Ayodhya.